LeadershipNow

From the About page:

At LeadershipNow, we want to change the way you think about leadership. It is not about position. Leadership is everybody’s business. It is for men, women and children. It is for families, business and communities. It is for you. In today’s world we need leadership now. We need people of all ages from all backgrounds to take advantage of the myriad of opportunities that exist to make a difference. The path to leadership begins in the mind. Leaders think differently. They see the world differently. We all possess the capacity for leadership, but only those who cultivate it will ever become truly effective leaders. By providing articles, features, books, multimedia and other resources, we would like to encourage you to develop the leader in you — to become an active participant in shaping your future and the future of others.

Recent Posts

• Do You Want to Change the World?
• Charles Handy: Are Leaders Born or Made?
• Leadership Books: February 2008
• Out of Context: A Matter of Character
• 5 Leadership Lessons: Inside Welch's Communication Revolution at GE
• Top-Down Change

This is a good site to consider adding to your RSS reader of choice.

Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog

From the About page:

Focused on Deming’s ideas, lean manufacturing (lean thinking), six sigma, customer focus, systems thinking, Toyota Production System (TPS) and innovation.

New readers might want to try our popular posts or view the posts by category (at the top of each category page some recommended posts are highlights) - listed on the left of this page.

The author of this blog is John Hunter.

The blog was added to Curious Cat Management Improvement Connections (which began in 1995) in 2004.

Also see our Curious Cat Management Improvement Encyclopedia.

There is a nice 3-column layout (yes, I am partial to those) and tons of informative links. You could get lost here for hours.

The one benefit if you did, you should come out as a smarter CAT!

A Girl's Guide to Managing Projects - Elizabeth

The trail takes us to France where Elizabeth writes A Girl's Guide to Managing Projects. In her post this week she writes:

This is the difference between skills and knowledge - let’s leave aside innate ability for the moment which our prof de danse obviously had in spadefuls. Skills are things that help you gather knowledge: competences, abilities, whatever buzzword you want to use. Knowledge is teachable and therefore learnable. Some people would argue that skills are teachable. I agree to a certain extent but there is a difference between teaching communication skills and teaching how to manage a risk. Skills are things you can build on, improve with practice and awareness and you can cover up your lack of them by being excellent in other things. Missing knowledge lets you down with a bump.

Read the full post here.

She writes in her about page:

Although I work as a senior project manager and writer, the views on this site don’t necessarily represent the views of my employer or my co-workers. They are just my ramblings!

All links on this site open in a new window, except when they refer to another blog post here.

This site looks best using Mozilla Firefox.

Terms of engagement: I’ll endeavour to post an article each Monday. If you get something else during the week, count it as a bonus.

I can confirm that her site works better in Firefox. I tried to copy the text above initially with IE and failed. Firefox was able to copy the text nicely.

Consider adding Elizabeth to your RSS Reader to keep current with A Girl's Guide to Managing Projects.